ImageMagick is not a new tool for me but I haven't really talked about how it comes in handy whenever I wanted to resize and/or compress images efficiently using the terminal instead of using some image conversion service found for free online.
To get started, make sure you install ImageMagick on your machine. This is the command I use for Fedora Linux:
sudo dnf install ImageMagick
For example, if you wanted to compress an image's quality to 80%, here's you can do it:
convert -quality 80% src.png dest.png
Great! What if you want to do it for hundreds of images in a directory, then you can easily do something like this:
find . -type f -name '*.png' -exec bash -c 'convert -quality 80% "$1" "${1%}_compressed.png" ' bash {} \;
You can do the same to resize the images while keeping original aspect ratio intact:
convert -resize 450x450 src.png dest.png
And similar to the one above, you can do the same for multiple images like so:
find . -type f -name '*.png' -exec bash -c 'convert -resize 450x450 "$1" "${1%}_resized.png" ' bash {} \;
I have just scraped the surface of this image manipulation tool and if you are interested to know more, read the official manpage on how to use it.
Hope you found this tip useful!
